Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it opens full service on the 320-mile run between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, the New Tokaido will be the world's fastest train. Bullet-shaped locomotives will whip 108 passenger trains daily over twelve miles of bridges, through 40 miles of tunnel and around gentle curves at speeds averaging 105 m.p.h. This is considered too fast for human engineers; computers will control the trains most of the way, with speeds and slowdowns for stops programmed on tape. Running time will be cut to three hours, from 6½ hours on the parallel Old Tokaido Line...
...Japanese maritime agency refused to sanction his trip on the grounds that it was "suicidal"; his frantic parents begged him to stay home. But Kenichi Horie, 23, a transistor-size auto parts salesman from Osaka, was a determined man. Last May 12 he crammed...
...Pacific, he finally saw the fog rise over the Golden Gate Bridge, politely offered sake to the puzzled U.S. immigration officials who met him. The immigration service decided to grant a one-month visa, and Happy Horie popped off to see the sights, surrounded by the giggling infield of Osaka's touring girls' Softball team. Back home, Japanese officials had to decide whether to fine Horie for illegal exit or hail him as a national hero, the first Japanese to sail the Pacific solo...
...Invited to the Japanese swimming championships at Osaka, a teen-age U.S. squad repaid its hosts by sweeping 21 of 29 events. Between them, U.S. and Japanese swimmers smashed 19 Japanese and two world records...
Even more de luxe is the Japanese National Railways' Kodama, which has eight trains daily each way between Tokyo and Osaka, covering the 345 miles in 6½ hours...